Hermann Hochleitner

Football forward Hermann Hochleitner played with the Austrian national team at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. The team lost its quarter-final 3-1 to defending champions Sweden. In total, Hochleitner won seven international caps scoring two goals. Domestically, Hochleitner played with Salzburger AK 1914 until 1953 and helped them get promoted to Staatsliga in 1952. He then moved to Austria Salzburg before returning to Salzburger AK in 1957, when he turned to coaching.

By profession, Hochleitner worked with the employment office in Salzburg for 45 years. From 1976-90 he headed the services of the Salzburg employment office and during this time he also created essential prerequisites for the later transformation of the employment office into a labour market service. For this work he was awarded the Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the Austrian Republic in 1990.